Philadelphia, PA – Abortionist Kermit Gosnell made a brief court appearance yesterday and entered a plea of not guilty to charges that he operated a pill mill out of his “house of horrors” abortion clinic between 2008 and January, 2010.

Gosnell is already being held without bail on seven murder charges for the deaths of one patient and the killings of six new born babies who were born alive them killed by stabbing and cutting their spinal cords with scissors. Nine of his unlicensed and unqualified employees were charged with him various charges from murder to participating in a corrupt organization. Since then six have pled guilty — three to murder charges — to avoid being tried with Gosnell.

The drug charges were added to Gosnell’s long list of abortion-related charges last month.

Authorities raided the medical offices of Kermit Gosnell in January, 2010, on suspicion that he was operating a pill mill that was the largest source of illegal painkillers sold on the streets of his city. That was when they discovered a squalid “house of horrors” where illegal late-term abortions were done on drugged, dazed women, where the late-term babies were born alive then murdered by severing their spinal cords with scissors, and where the severed feet of those late-term babies were kept in jars as trophies.

Gosnell is expected to be tried on the abortion-infant murder charges in March, 2013. He could face the death penalty if convicted.

Attorneys for both sides of the abortion and drug cases have been placed under a gag order.

“We are thankful for the aggressive prosecution of Gosnell for all his crimes. The courage of the District Attorney’s office is commendable and has led to many reforms nationwide that have resulted in dangerous abortion clinics closing and new laws that will make women and their pre-born babies a little safer,” said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue and the new Pro-Life Nation. “We look forward to Gosnell’s day in court where we pray his victims will receive the justice they deserve under the law.”

Read the 281-page Grand Jury Report
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View mug shots of Gosnell and his co-defendants

Elkton, Maryland – A notice was filed in the Cecil County Court today setting a trial date for abortionist Steven Chase Brigham, who has been charged with murder in the deaths of viable babies during illegal late-term abortions. As of now, Brigham is scheduled to stand trial on June 4-15, 2012.

Other hearing dates were also set. May 4, 2012, is a scheduled motions hearing with a Pre-Trial Conference to be held on May 25, 2012. It is possible that these dates may be delayed as the case proceeds.

Records do not yet show a trial date set for Brigham’s co-defendant, Nicola Riley. Brigham has asked to be tried separately from her.

In the meantime, Riley’s motion to dismiss the case has become public. Her attorneys argue that since late-term abortions are legal in Maryland, she is immune from prosecution.

Her motion quotes from Md. Code, Health-Gen. §20-209(d):

The physician is not liable for civil damages or subject to a criminal penalty for a decision to perform an abortion under this section made in good faith and in the physician’s best medical judgment in accordance with accepted standards of medical practice.

However, the abortion on patient “D.B.” that led to Riley’s charges appears to have been an illegal one – or at least one not done “in good faith and in the physician’s best medical judgment in accordance with accepted standards of medical practice.”

The State of New Jersey suspended Brigham’s medical license claiming his late-term abortion operation showed “flagrant disregard or the Board’s regulations regarding termination of pregnancy and thus presents a clear and imminent danger to the public.” Briefs filed by New Jersey Deputy Attorney General Jeri L. Wartifig in support of Brigham’s suspension indicated that D.B.’s abortion and othesr done in Elkton violated the “standards of medical practice” in several ways. Those included the facts that Brigham was banned from starting abortions after 14 weeks in New Jersey, he dangerously transported women in full labor miles away to a facility in a state where he had no medical license and no emergency hospital arrangements, and that he was aware that Riley was unqualified to do the risky late-term “D & E” abortions he hired her to do.

While unqualified, Riley still conducted abortions under Brigham’s supervision and advice even though she was well aware that Brigham did not have a license to practice in Maryland.

“It will be interesting to see how the Maryland State Prosecutors will try Brigham and Riley. It seems that there is plenty of evidence already in the record in New Jersey and with the Maryland Board of Physicians, to indicate the abortions that led to the murder charges were done illegally and outside the standard of medical practice to the extent that two states determined Brigham’s bi-state late-term abortion scheme posed ‘a clear and imminent danger to the public.’ The law only seems to give immunity from prosecution to those who are acting within the standards of medical practice,” said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue and Pro-Life Nation.

“This case raises the interesting question of why the law allows for the protection of viable babies on one hand and the killing of viable babies on the other based solely on how the mother feels about her pregnancy at any particular point in time. On one point the killer is prosecuted, on the other, he is immune. The coexistence of these two contradictory and incompatible legal doctrines must be reconciled, and maybe this will be the case to do it once and for all in favor of protecting innocent life.”

Read Brigham Documents at AbortionDocs.org
Read Riley Documents at AbortionDocs.org

Birmingham, AL – Two women were transported from a Alabama abortion clinic yesterday after paramedics had to hand-lift a partially clad woman from a narrow doorway and down several steps to an awaiting gurney. A second woman was wheeled to her gurney in a wheelchair. The incident took place at the New Women All Women abortion clinic in South Birmingham.

This occurred on the day before the 39th memorial of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision decriminalized abortion in America. That decision promised that women would be insured “safe, legal abortions.”

It was a promise that was never kept.

Fr. Terry Gensemer of CEC for Life issued the following statement yesterday:

According to several witnesses, an ambulance first arrived at 9:31 a.m. but left shortly after without removing any patients from the clinic. At 10:21 a.m., less than an hour after the first ambulance, two more ambulances and another emergency vehicle returned to the abortion clinic. Witnesses said one of the women brought out by the EMTs appeared to be unconscious and bleeding. She was placed in an ambulance and transferred to a medical facility. A second woman emerged with an oxygen mask and was transported to the ambulance in a wheelchair. It is presumed that she was also taken to a nearby medical facility.

Pro-Life blogger Jill Stanek soon posted dramatic photos taken at the scene that showed that EMT with gurneys were forced to navigate through an alley filled with trash and debris to reach a door that prevented gurney access. The condition of the two women is currently unknown.

Fr. Gensemer’s full press statement along with six photos taken of the incident can be viewed at AbortionDocs.org.

“Abortionists love to complain about clinic regulations and portray them as an anti-abortion plot to prevent women from accessing, safe, legal care. This incident proves yet again how untrue those statements really are, and how much regulation is needed to close unsafe mills like New Woman All Woman. This place is no safer for women that Kermit Gosnell’s ‘shop of horror,’” said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue and Pro-Life Nation, who launched the website AbortionDocs.org last week.

“AbortionDocs.org was created for incidents like this, so the public would have comprehensive, up-to-date information about the abortion cartel and its abuses so that the whole truth about the horrific nature of their grisly business can be exposed and stopped through peaceful, legal means.”

Last year, Pennsylvania abortionist Kermit Gosnell was charged with the murder of Karnamaya Mongar, who died after paramedics found emergency exits blocked at his Philadelphia abortion mill. Lack of gurney access contributed to her death. Since then, several states have passed clinic regulations and increased inspections at abortion clinics. This has led to the closure of two abortion clinics in Illinois, two in Deleware, three in Pennsylvania, and more.

Pro-Life Nation is working with Fr. Gensemer to make sure that complaints against New Woman All Women are filed with the appropriate Alabama regulatory agencies.